TripAdvisor Reviews Hotel Lula's Bed and Breakfast Bocas Town

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... We eventually got our stuff from the hostel and headed back to the beach where we chilled out and caught up on a bit of sleep. One thing for sure the water is a little cooler then Puerto Viejo which is a lovely break from the heat. After a day of sun, sea and reading we headed back for dinner. True as nuts 3 more sloths in the tree. I love the little critters. They are just so adorable. Sloths and Kev make it all right. Dinner was a no go as the restaurant was not up and ...

You may think it runs from west to east, but in fact it runs north to south - today we are navigating through the Panama Canal. Having risen through the sturdy locks on the Atlantic side we are now in the lake that allows passage to the Pacific and the locks that will take us back down to sea level. As you might expect the vegetation is lush green rainforest in this part ...

... After showing the immigration worker that we had our onwards flight booked taking us out of Panama and into Columbia in 11 days time he asked to see details of our flight back to the UK. We don't even know when exactly this will be and we're far from booking that flight. He wasn't impressed and just put his hand up and said 'No, no functiona, not allowed.' After standing in line for what seemed like an eternity we were not budging. We would have set up camp at the ...

... into a rocky path after a passing a shallow ocean ford! This is the route hired quads would have taken so I was wishing we had done that, but the bikes were still fun! We kept cycling along, passing lots of surfers, the waves were so rough and the sea was pretty dangerous around here. Eventually we made it to Playa Bluff, which was near enough empty! The sea was still crashing with waves but the beach was unspoiled and the only ...

... Eventually a lock system was seen as the best strategy. The first vessel traversed the entire canal early in 1914. Since then, the system has been regularly upgraded and enlarged.

There are currently two lanes of locks, and a third, larger lane is due to open in 2016. Huge metal gates for the new locks were seen parked on the west side of the canal. We caught up the the container ship as it entered the left lane, ...